For guidance on planning your revegetation or restoration site (size, shape, species, density of planting) refer to chapters four and five of this site.

Remember: good quality vegetation sites may not need revegetation at all. Appropriate management can encourage natural regeneration.

General Native Vegetation Profile:

Ten Mile

Flats Lower slopes Hills – N & NW aspect Hills – S & SE aspect
LANDFORM Flats
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium – sand, silt, clay & gravel. Sandy yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE NW of Annandale South
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m # Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree

# not noted in area but suggested for replanting

+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS + Blechnum nudum Water Fern
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
+ Carex spp. Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

+  creeks/soaks/poorly  drained  sites

 

LANDFORM Lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE

Blakely’s Red Gum & Yellow Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Alluvium – sand, silt, clay & gravel; granite, gneissic granite & gneiss; & quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Sandy yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE SE of Annandale South
TREES >8M

Acacia dealbata

Silver Wattle

A. melanoxylon

Blackwood

Brachychiton populneus

Kurrajong

Eucalyptus albens

White Box

E. blakelyi

Blakely’s Red Gum

E. bridgesiana

Apple Box

E. macrorhyncha

Red Stringybark

E. mannifera

Brittle Gum

E. melliodora

Yellow Box

E. polyanthemos

Red Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m

Acacia paradoxa

Kangaroo Thorn

# A. rubida

Red-stemmed Wattle

# Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa

Sweet Bursaria

Kunzea ericoides

Burgan

+ Leptospermum continentale

Prickly Tea-tree

Pultenaea cunninghamii

Grey Bush-pea

+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS + Blechnum nudum Water Fern
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
+ Carex spp. Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

+  creeks/soaks/poorly  drained  sites

 

LANDFORM Hills – N & NW aspect
VEGETATION TYPE Dry forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Mainly granite, gneissic granite & gneiss. Also quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Sandy granite soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Woomargama State Forest
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. doratoxylon Currawang
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Allocasuarina verticillate Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. nortonii Silver Bundy
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos Red Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry/Cherry Ballart
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia gunnii Ploughshare Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
D. leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
I. australis Austral Indigo
Kunzea parvifolia Violet Kunzea
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
Pultenaea cunninghamii Grey-Bush-pea
P. procumbens Heathy Bush-pea
Persoonia rigida Hairy Geebung

+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS Adiantum aethiopicum Common Maidenhair
Bracteantha spp. Everlasting
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Yellow Buttons
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dillwynia sericea Showy Parrot-pea
Glycine clandestine Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Isotoma axillaris Rock Isotome
Joycea pallida Red-anther Wallaby Grass
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Pimelea spp. Rice-flower
Poa sieberiana Tussock Grass
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Xanthorrhoea spp. Grass Tree

* mainly N & NW aspect

LANDFORM Hills – S & SE aspect
VEGETATION TYPE Moist open forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Mainly granite, gneissic granite & gneiss. Also quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Sandy granite soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Mount Narra Narra
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus bicostata Eurabbie
+ E. camphora Mountain Swamp Gum
E. dives Broad-leaved Peppermint
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. mannifera Brittle Gum
E. nortonii Silver Bundy
E. robertsonii Robertson’s Peppermint
E. rubida Candlebark
E. viminalis Manna Gum
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
+ creeks/ soaks
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
Persoonia rigida Hairy Geebung

+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS Adiantum aethiopicum Common Maidenhair
Xerochrysum spp. Everlasting
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Yellow Buttons
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dillwynia sericea Showy Parrot-pea
Glycine clandestine Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Isotoma axillaris Rock Isotome
Joycea pallida Red-anther Wallaby Grass
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Pimelea spp. Rice-flower
Poa sieberiana Tussock Grass
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Xanthorrhoea spp. Grass Tree

* mainly N & NW aspect